The Record is Crooked

See, here's the thing, given the area where Jesus would have lived, I would suggest that Felon47 looks as much like the actual Christ probably looked as does the typical depiction of the icon in the Western world. (which is to say, not at all)

As much as I hate to cut the global menace any slack, if a depiction of Jesus as a blue-eyed, fair-skinned guy with straight blonde(ish) hair doesn't offend you, then seeing Twitler as the Christ is just you picking and choosing what lie you prefer.

Not Too Old To Learn

 WE ARE LOOSING

TO BLACKS, THEY ACT MATURE

Soooooooo, the video linked below showed up in my feed with the two lines quoted above, visible on the video.  Being true and honest about my own pedantic assholeishness, I ignored it.  

Abusing words needlessly is a good way to make sure I ignore a given video or essay.  Be it wrong, stupid or something else, I prejudge frequently on the basis of language.  Oddly enough, I can forgive honest ignorance.  TBF, I do not wish to be held responsible for things I actually and honestly do not know.  As such, I cannot in good conscience hold others responsible for things they honestly do not know. 

I have no real idea who added those words to the video.  I am at this stage, pretty damn sure it was not the speaker featured in the video.  I encountered the video several times prior to actually watching it.  However, when a "trusted" source recommended it, I thought I would watch at least a couple of minutes which should be sufficient to justify my casual dismissal.  It turned out that the speaker was an author I paid a lot of attention to in the early days of the internet/Web.  I watched it in its entirety and strongly suggest you do as well.  

Seriously, stop what you are doing and pay attention to this video.

Not Normal

 It is incredibly atypical for me to agree fully with anyone on just damn near anything.  That is somewhat intentional.  It makes me very nervous for everyone to agree with me - it makes me assume I got something horribly wrong.

So you should absolutely take it seriously that I am struggling to find something to disagree with in my friend's post on Substack.  You should go read it in full and point out where I should be in opposition since my reflexively argumentative nature is apparently malfunctioning.

You may want to read other of his musings and you could even find yourself wanting to subscribe.  Click this link and share it if you feel so inspired.

Aeronautical Prevarication

 I own weapons. Several as a matter of fact.  Some are traditional martial arts weapons.  Some are my own improvisation.  Some, are firearms.  Some are projectile weapons that do not require chemical explosions.

I legally own and possess those because I am a law-abiding citizen and I can.  All of that to say that my ability to own, possess and wield weapons has not been obliterated in the recent or distant past.

I am 99.999999999999999999999999% sure that if I knew the exact flight path and the exact time and intensely practiced for a year, nothing in my (small) personal arsenal could bring down an F15 or an A10.

No sane person needed the confirmation that Felon47 is an obligate liar but that confirmation is here anyway.   Obliterated weapons systems or obliterated military capacity would not be any better at bringing down either of those warplanes than I am.  Yet, both of them went down and other aircraft have taken fire.

For no reason or for any reason at all, Felon47's first impulse is to lie to you.  (unfortunately it is also his second, third, fourth ad infinitum impulse)

Its Always Darkest, Just Before It Goes Completely Black

 I understand the temptation to cheer at the dismissal of senior misadmistration officials.

But we need to be honest with ourselves. The replacements are always more evil and less competent - even when it seems like no one could possibly be.

Fool Me Twice

 I am not a youngster.  My corporeal form has circled the Sun 70+ times.  Depending on when exactly during those rotations you approached me, there is a solidly high probability that you could well have found me being somewhat less than serious.

Yea, I like to joke around.  Practical jokes, funny memes, satire, or whatever else I thought someone would laugh at are all things you might have to suffer through interacting with me.  This year though, this year is different.  Well, technically this month is different.  I might even suggest that it is just today that is different.  I mean, I said "today" but really, I should say "this date".

Today is 4/1, April the first.  the 91st day of the year.  Today is April Fools Day.  Traditionally, this is a day for practical jokes, outrageous lies and in general a good natured exploration into the gullibility of humans. 

I have been on both sides of the April Fools silliness.  There have been years when I was working enough that I did not notice the date and as a result, fell prey to those paying more attention.  Other years, I was the asshole enjoying the mild discomfort of those trying to give their sense of humor a break.

Today was different though.  For the first April Fools in my memory, I neither saw nor proposed one single date related effort at humor.  Like others on social media, I saw some posts suggesting that what the misadministration is doing is more outrageous than anything I might come up with.  Still, I am not possessed of sufficient ego to believe that the nation would follow my humor lead so, I was prepared to observe and ideally, enjoy the efforts of others.  That didn't happen.  

Regardless of what you actually think of Felon47 and crew of incompetents, that he has reduced the level of humor in the nation (probably world).  We are more polarized and more bitter than at any point in my memory.  We have the biggest April Fool ever.

It ain't funny.